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Read through the National Security Archive, hosted at
George Washington University: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/index.html
where you will find many documents, from our government, that document what "conspiracy theorists" have been saying all along.
Gulf of Tonkin declassified reports now show
that skewed intelligence reports were used by the Johnson Administration to justify war with Vietnam.

Special Message to my darling nieces who are incommunicado, under the grip of
their authoritarian, Unification Church (Moonie) control-freak parents. Read it here.

Sad Lover's Waltz
Wendi Olson and I did a new recording of Camper Van Beethoven's "Sad Lover's Waltz". Listen Here

Breasts Not Bombs!

Here we are at a Breasts Not Bombs rally at the state capital,
Sacramento, CA, protesting the War, the Special Election, and sexual
discrimination in exercising freedom of speech. Read the full story.

GOD
BLESS AMERICA!

In NY recently, I had a few altercations with NYPD and the MTA station
agents, for committing the crime of exercising Freedom of the Press.
Read about the latest chilling of your rights, New York style.

CD:
"Welcome to Club Fed"

This is a rockin', jazzy, slammin' studio album with some great Bay
Area musicians.

These are fun, groovy songs, with beats and beautiful
harmonies. But you won't hear this album on mainstream
radio. So please support alternative music by listening,
and passing the links on to friends. And if you are so moved,
buy
yourself a copy of the CD. If you don't like it, I'll refund
your money and shipping cost.

A free weekly gathering of musicians and
poets in Berkeley, CA. Open mic, open jam, dancing ... the place to be
in Berkeley on Thursday nights. Hosted by Laramie Crocker, Lauren Renee
Hotchkiss, and Wendi Olson.
Visit LiveAndUnplugged.org
for more details.

"The checks and balances in the
Constitution must have been designed with this administration in mind."-- Senator Carl Levin,
Democrat/Michigan

Latest rants:

I saw this photo
showing soldiers' caskets being shipped home, and was moved by
the sadness of this senseless loss to write this new song:
Cargo [mp3]. I've since found
a large collection of these previously unavailable photos,
released by a Freedom of Information Act request at the
theMemoryHole.org.
photo2photo3I just finished a new song, called Ridin' High
which may just sum up the Dubya years succinctly. It's about folks
cashin' in their tax-free dividends
to buy Lincoln Navigators to ride roughshod over the rest of us little
people.
My song Little
Black Box was posted on verifiedvoting.org
which is doing such important work (along with blackboxvoting.org)
preserving the very core of our democracy -- open, honest elections.
I recently played
at a rally
organized by TrueMajority.org in Sacramento, CA, where
the Elections Commission decided to decertify Diebold!
The solutions that were designed to save us from the "hanging-chad"
issue have
instead become huge problems. Overvoting, lost votes, closed polling
places, these are all happening.
We must insist that states and counties use verifiable paper printouts
from these
voting machines. It is cheap, simple, and most of the touch-screen
voting machines
support it. But vendors and elected representatives are fighting this
common-sense
action. Why? Read more.
I feel this is the single most important thing for us to stand up for.
Without
verified votes, countable votes, hack-free votes, then our votes to get
George W. Bush
a one-way ticket to Crawford, TX could be lost. Find out
how to get involved.More Rants:

Governor Howard
Dean was my choice to take on George W. Bush. And I still
think he would have done the job a whole lot better. However, looking
forward, we need to take all that great Dean energy, and all the energy
people put into Kucinich, Kerry, and all the others, and turn it to
reforming the Democratic party. Visit DemocracyForAmerica.com
and plug into the "Democratic wing of the Democratic party".

Click on the Meetup nametag on the right to find the next local meetup
in your area.

Check out Dean's inspiring speech to the California
Democratic convention, March 15, 2003, And the inspiring The
Great American Restoration speech, which I
attended at his declaration of candidacy for President in Burlingon,
VT, June 23, 2003.

You can take a look at the EB4Democracy.com
site I helped to set up. It is a local Democracy for America group that
I helped to organize in the S.F. East Bay.

Welcome! This is a place for ranting against the Bush Administration
and their personal wars against Iraq, against the environment, against
the constitution, and against the American people. In this column,
you'll see my music, songs and stories to this goal. On the left are
rants, articles, and resources for re-defeating Bush.

Read the article
in Salon.com: "House
party! by Katharine Mieszkowski about a MoveOn houseparty I
hosted. I played some songs and organized about 50 Berkeleyans who were
fired up to push for Election reform and to reform the Democratic Party
and the Media.

Read the John P. Gregg article (reprinted
here) from the Valley News in New Hampshire, about
my Internet activism for Howard Dean and my songs.

Help remind the
world that real people live in Iraq....
Since February 2003,
People have postered snapshots from Baghdad on street corners, in
offices, and at schools around
the world. Quiet and casual, the snapshots show a part of Baghdad we
rarely see: the part with
people in it. www.nationalphilistine.com

3/23/2003, matteo

Call and
write the President and the Congress

Congress.org
-- a web service to lookup legislators and voting records, by your zip
code. Very Cool!

IndyMedia
Go here, then click on your city for great local news and local actions:www.indymedia.org
For example, sf.indymedia.org
has great, up-to-date actions listed for the San Francisco Bay Area.
On the day of actions, indymedia's web-radio is an indispensable source
of live information: Enemy Combatant Radio